We believe, teach, and confess the Triune God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
We believe, teach, and confess Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. The Gospel is the power of God for the salvation of all who believe and trust in Him.
This same Jesus Christ is the Word made flesh. As John 1:1 states, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
The Word of God is revealed to us in proclamation of Law and Gospel. The law kills – it shows us how utterly we fail to live up to the standards of the perfect, holy, and just God. The Gospel makes alive – delivering forgiveness that was won by Christ on the Cross.
The Word of God is the canonical 66 books of Holy Scripture. It is all inspired by the Holy Spirit for teaching, rebuking, and correcting (2 Tim 3:16). In all that is taught, we are always pointed to Christ, who is the full revelation of God in time.
The Scriptures are the sole source and norm of our proclamation, faith, and life.
The three ecumencial creeds (Apostles’, Nicene, and Athanasian) are true declarations of the faith we believe, teach, and confess.
We believe, teach, and accept the Unaltered Augsburg Confession and the Small Catechism as true witnesses to the Word of God, normative for our teaching and practice. We acknowledge that we are one in faith and doctrine with all churches that likewise accept the teachings of the Unaltered Augsburg Confession.
We believe, teach, and confess the other confessional writings in the Book of Concord namely, the Apology of the Augsburg Confession, the Smalcald Articles, the Treatise, the Large Catechism, and the Formula of Concord, as further valid expositions of the Holy Scriptures.
We believe, teach, and confess the gospel, recorded in the Holy Scriptures and confessed in the ecumenical creeds and Lutheran confessional writings, as the power of God to create and sustain the priesthood of all believers for God’s mission in the world.
